Reception Blog 7th November 2025

Date: 5th Nov 2025 @ 12:33pm

 

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our weekly Reception blog!

 

What a Fab First Week Back!

 

AWARDS

Well done to our award winners this week!

 

Phonics.

 The children have continued to enjoy the daily sessions and have been practising each new phoneme in their independent learning. Please keep sending in on Seesaw examples of the children practising their phonemes and graphemes at home. They have had the chance to practise forming the graphemes correctly. Please see the sheets for the new term in the files section below. We have also introduced tricky word 'I', 'is', 'the' and 'put'. If you want to practise forming the graphemes using the rhymes for each one and playing games such as I spy to help consolidate this weeks learning. Any photos of this homework can be sent in via Seesaw.

Reading.

Please remember to read regular with your child, this term especially is important as we delve deeper into their phonetic knowledge for building reading and comprehension skills.

Also please can you ensure only one key ring is hanging from your child's book bag. This will help us fit them in the class box. Thank you.

Please send into school the reading book and reading record book each day as we hear the children read aswell. We change the books twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays. Books will only be changed if the reading record has been written in. If you have any questions please ask.

Maths.

We have been focussing on subitising 5 and finding different ways to represent it this week.

Literacy.

 

This week we have started to read our new book 'Pumpkin Soup' its a fabulous story. We used our phonetic knowledge to write a short caption descibing the pumpkins we explored. 

Pumpkin Fun

 

We have been creating pumpkin art mark making using shapes, dots and patterns.

Diwali

We have had a fabulous week learning all about Diwali and how it is celebrated. The children have designed then created beautiful Diva lamps. bright and colourful Rangoli patterns and listen and recalled the story of Rama and Sita.

 

Safety in PE

We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.

For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Tuesday and Friday, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.

Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.

 

ODD Socks Day

End of Day Routine

• Children will only be allowed to go home with adults listed on the safeguarding form, unless school has been contacted to state otherwise. ​

• Children will be dismissed one at a time. Please let the adult on the gate know who you are picking up and they will then call the child.

• We kindly request that all children are dismissed prior to teachers/ Teaching Assistants being approached by parents. ​

• Should any child need to come back into the classroom, we will allow them back into the room after all of the children have been dismissed.​

 

Coming Soon!

Please can you ensure to complete the permission slip and return it to school.

This term our EYFS children will taken part in Lancashire County Councils' Stage 1 Right Start Child Pedestrian Training Programme. This programme teaches your child how to keep themselves safe when out and about in the traffic environment and to apply the rules of the Green Cross Code every time they cross a road. They have been taught how important it is that they:

· Think – is this the safest place to cross the road?

· Stop - with their feet back from the kerb, which gives them time to Look and Listen.

· Look - for any vehicles that might be coming on the road – remember, children of this age are unable to judge speed and distance.

· Listen - for vehicles. They may hear something before they can see it – remind them though, that electric cars make very little noise.

· Think again – have they followed the rules, and will they keep Looking and Listening the whole time they are crossing the road?

 

They have also been reminded to play in a safe place away from traffic and to wear or carry something bright so they can be seen at the roadside by other road users.

Please can you continue to reinforce these messages when out and about with your children.

 

CHILDREN IN NEED!

Friday 14^th November is Children in Need day and our school council have decided that this year, we will be doing a cake sale! 

If you are able to donate some cakes, they can be brought in to school on Thursday and Friday and our school council will be selling them after school on Friday. If you would like to purchase a cake to support Children in Need, please bring some money at the end of the day on Friday.

 

 

 

 

 

Thankyou for your continued support and have a lovely half term!

The Reception Team

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